“I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edge will grow light. Till then I see what’s really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now, Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall myself die.”
— Philip Larkin, from “Aubade,” The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin, ed. Archie Burnett (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012)


























